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Cheap Trick: ‘We got asked to play for the Republicans – we would have got swastika guitars made’
The Guardian ^ | 4.21.2016 | Michael Hann

Posted on 04/09/2021 6:17:39 PM PDT by TakebackGOP

Robin Zander lead singer of Cheap Trick, “The Republican National Committee called our office and offered us $100,000 to play at their convention in Cleveland [this summer],” Zander says. “We turned it down. Then we had second thoughts. Maybe we should have accepted it – but we would all have got swastika guitars made.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016; cheaptrick; losers; okboomer; oldnews
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To: Starcitizen

Try Neal Morse.


41 posted on 04/09/2021 7:09:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Doesn’t he mean the National Socialist Party?


42 posted on 04/09/2021 7:10:21 PM PDT by bray
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To: TakebackGOP

Libs/Dems ban speech and guns, play racial politics, use de facto state media to spread propaganda, and collude with big biz to lord their power over the citizenry, yet somehow WE are the Nazis / fascists. Goebbels would be impressed with how effectively they’ve pulled this off.


43 posted on 04/09/2021 7:11:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: TakebackGOP; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let me guess. Robin thinks his lame comment about swastika guitars is clever? Cool? Edgy?

What a tool.


44 posted on 04/09/2021 7:17:06 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: TakebackGOP

How clever. It takes a lot of brainpower to come up with that. I have heard of the band but couldn’t think of any of their songs, so I looked them up. I am familiar with one (1) of their songs, and it sucks. (Coincidentally, I woke up with that song in my head this morning and wondered who sang it. Now I know). After all that, I can’t say I care a bit about what they “think” about anything.


45 posted on 04/09/2021 7:17:20 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: dfwgator

Isn’t fascism government control over the means of production, while communism is government ownership of the means of production.

Not a whole lot of difference.


46 posted on 04/09/2021 7:18:22 PM PDT by CottonBall (MAKE REPUBLICANS WHIGS AGAIN!)
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To: Starcitizen

Who’s left?

I’m at the point of old timey church hymns. Fanny Crosby!


47 posted on 04/09/2021 7:24:23 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: TakebackGOP

Just accept it.
All of those bands you loved growing up are nothing but worthless snowflakes who couldn’t last 2 minutes in real brawl.

That includes the so-called “death metal” bands as well.


48 posted on 04/09/2021 7:25:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: CottonBall

Fascists just have snappier uniforms.


49 posted on 04/09/2021 7:26:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pollard

They all look gay to me.


50 posted on 04/09/2021 7:26:51 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey Robin, if Republicans really were Nazis, then you’d be dead.


51 posted on 04/09/2021 7:28:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TakebackGOP

2021 is a long way from their prime in 1978. Had they not dissed republicans they would not have gotten any press this year.


52 posted on 04/09/2021 7:29:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: TakebackGOP

I honestly can’t decide which is more pathetic: that these geezers imagine they’re still relevant or that the RNC thought it would be a good idea to hire these two-hit wonder has-beens to perform at their convention.


53 posted on 04/09/2021 7:30:08 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (My job went to India and all I got was this stupid severance package.)
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To: Pollard

They won’t even let their drummer play with them


54 posted on 04/09/2021 7:32:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Pollard

What happened to Bun E. Carlos?


55 posted on 04/09/2021 7:33:41 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: TakebackGOP

Tell him to “bake the cake” and not discriminate or preach h8.


56 posted on 04/09/2021 7:34:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: dfwgator

Good point!


57 posted on 04/09/2021 7:36:46 PM PDT by CottonBall (MAKE REPUBLICANS WHIGS AGAIN!)
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To: TakebackGOP

I thought he just acted 12 as part of the act. But no, mentally, he IS 12, how about that.


58 posted on 04/09/2021 7:49:53 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be ionsarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: TakebackGOP
They are local heroes in Rockford, IL. Rockford has plenty of Republicans and conservatives, and a significant number of the Democrats are old-school pro-gun pro-values types (Glenn Poshard Dems).

I had not known them to be political except for local boosterism until now. That saddens me.

They don't have the luxury of expecting to be taken seriously the way Bruce Sprinsteen does.


59 posted on 04/09/2021 7:50:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: TakebackGOP

Somebody needed to get their heads swatted.

Why these when there is Kid Rock.


60 posted on 04/09/2021 7:54:35 PM PDT by crz
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